Two arrested for alerting thousands to police traffic checks

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Two men person been arrested for moving amerciable online communities that warned members astir constabulary traffic checks, constabulary said.

The 29-year-old and 55-year-old suspects allegedly managed three groups connected a messaging level with much than 201,000 members. The communities provided real-time updates connected constabulary beingness connected nationalist highways successful Athens, Thessaloniki, and Crete.

According to authorities, the younger suspect operated each three groups arsenic a super administrator, while the older antheral held an head relation successful the largest community, which had implicit 173,000 members.

The groups were taken offline pursuing the arrests. Police said the alerts chiefly benefited would-be traffic violators and others seeking to evade instrumentality enforcement.

The two suspects person been referred to the prosecution authority.